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June 4, 2014: Slap Shot (1977)

Jun4 by bellabone

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Black Comedy, Comedy, Drama, Movie of the Day, Reviews, Roundtable, Slapstick, Sports Tagged alcoholic, burlesque, fashion, figure skating, goon, Hanson brothers, hockey, leather pants, NHL, no not those Hansons, Paul Newman, Rust Belt, seventies, Stanley Cup, thug, violence, womanizer, World Hockey Association

January 11th, 2013: The Brain that Wouldn’t Die (1962)

Jan11 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Black and White, Horror, Independent, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original Tagged "what's locked in the closet", Acting!, artist model, bad special effects, burlesque, car accident, cash-in, decapitation, deformed assistant, disfigured face, double cross, Drive-In, father, fiance, grindhouse, head on a platter, head transplant, kidnapping, low-budget, mad scientist, models, nurse, organ transplantation, overbearing father, plastic surgery, quotably bad dialogue, rip-off, Sammy Petrillo, Science!, scientists, sleazy, strippers, surgery

August 23rd, 2011: On the Town (1949)

Aug23 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Comedy, Mistaken Identity, Movie of the Day, Musical, Screwball, Slapstick Tagged "One Crazy Night", 24 hour pass, Adolphe Green, Alice Pearce, Ann Miller, anthropologist, Arthur Freed, ballet, Best Music, Betty Comden, Betty Garrett, burlesque, cab driver, cavemen, Coney Island, dinosaur bones, Empire State Building, Florence Bates, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Jerome Robbins, Jules Munshin, lady cab driver, Loew's, MGM, museum, New York City, nightclub montage, sailors, shore leave, Stanley Donen, Technicolor, Vera-Ellen

February 3rd, 2011: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

Feb3 by Professor Mortis

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4 Comments Posted in Arthouse, Crime, Film Noir, Gangster, Independent, Movie of the Day, Neo-Noir Tagged Ben Gazzara, burlesque, Haji, hit man, John Cassavetes, mobsters, Seymour Cassel, strip club, Timothy Carey

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